Louis Carpentier

Louis Carpentier (1833-) was a French immigrant to the United States who settled in Frenchman's Gulch, Arizona during the 1870s. He frequented the saloon and played cards with Surly Joe and Elliott Montgomery, and, in 1873, he witnessed Buster Scruggs' clever killing of Joe by knocking a plank against Joe's arm and causing him to accidentally shoot himself three times. While Carpentier had originally insisted that Scruggs would have to play his hand after regarding the cards, he joined the saloon in singing along as Scruggs celebrated his killing of Joe.